...without a trace - the so-called "vanishing." The CIA engineered coups in Chile and Guatemala that overthrew democratically elected leaders and installed vicious dictators. Now Iran has reason to believe it is in the crosshairs. In 2003, then-President...

1953 - A CIA coup overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran, President Mohammed Mossadegh, installing the repressive regime of the shah. Mossadegh's crime was to want to nationalize...